johnny cake

British  

noun

1. a type of thin flat corn bread baked on a griddle

2. a thin cake of flour and water paste cooked in the ashes of a fire or in a pan

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Example Sentences

Any day is a good time for a johnny cake, cornmeal flatbread topped with smoked whitefish and beads of salmon roe.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2017

Still more so when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into johnny cake by the aid of a tin grater.

From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

We'd all get round de trough and drink wid our mouth and hold our johnny cake in our han's.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

Dere's a slice of bacon and some johnny cake for you.

From Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget by Castlemon, Harry

Tea was laid on the parlour table—ham, sardines, a whole pound of butter, and such a large johnny cake that it looked like an advertisement for somebody's baking-powder.

From The Garden Party and Other Stories by Mansfield, Katherine